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Jobs guarantee plan is likely to redistribute unemployment rather than reduce it overall
Len Shackleton
8 January 2013
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The Labour Party has created a stir in advance of today’s vote on restricting benefit increases by proposing a ‘jobs guarantee’ for 130,000 long-term unemployed. This would be...
Old Labour + wind farms = predistribution
Kristian Niemietz
13 September 2012
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  In 1997, I knew next to nothing about politics, and even less about British politics. But I remember the debates about the ‘Third Way’ quite vividly. For some, the Third Way...
What happened to progress?
Peter King
5 September 2011
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  One of the arguments used by the pro-AV campaign in the early spring was that a positive vote to change the electoral system would signal that there was a progressive majority in the...
Do we finally have a grown-up government?
Peter King
4 October 2010
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Politics, unlike commentary, is the art of the possible. It is about getting things done and surviving in the process. One means of survival, however, is to try to do as little as possible, and we...
A time to be negative
Peter King
7 April 2010
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Most of us are interested in politics because we believe in something, whether this is liberty, free markets or personal responsibility. We see our involvement in politics as putting forward...
The Labour Party and Arthur Seldon’s predictions
John Meadowcroft
9 September 2008
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In a letter to The Times on 8 August 1980, the IEA’s founder Editorial Director Arthur Seldon made the following three predictions: The Soviet Union will not survive the century China will go...

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